{"id":52146,"date":"2020-11-10T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=52146"},"modified":"2020-11-10T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:02:03","slug":"use-your-favorite-open-source-apps-on-your-mac-with-macports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=52146","title":{"rendered":"Use your favorite open source apps on your Mac with MacPorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/coffee_cafe_brew_laptop_desktop.jpg\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" alt=\"Coffee and laptop\" title=\"Coffee and laptop\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Package manager&#8221; is a generic name for software to install, upgrade, and uninstall applications. Commands like <code>dnf<\/code> or <code>apt<\/code> on Linux, or <code>pkg_add<\/code> on BSD, or even <code>pip<\/code> on Python and <code>luarocks<\/code> on Lua, make it trivial for users to add new applications to their system. Once you&#8217;ve tried it, you&#8217;re likely to find it hard to live without, and it&#8217;s a convenience every operating system ought to include. Not all do, but the open source community tends to ensure the best ideas in computing are propagated across all platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/20\/11\/macports\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Package manager&#8221; is a generic name for software to install, upgrade, and uninstall applications. Commands like dnf or apt on Linux, or pkg_add on BSD, or even pip on Python and luarocks on Lua, make it trivial for users to add new applications to their system. Once you&#8217;ve tried it, you&#8217;re likely to find it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}